Session I: Bogor Goals and Asia-Pacific Economic CooperationThis session will cover two issues. Firstly, after taking stock of APEC's achievements in promoting trade and investment liberalization, the panel will discuss whether APEC could reach the Bogor Goals by 2020. Secondly, the panel will discuss how to set a clear goal of FTAAP by 2020 and beyond, giving full consideration to the status quo of the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation, the situation in 2020, and the role that the region is supposed to play in promoting multilateral trade process.

Moderator

Zhang Yunling, Academician and Director of International Studies, CASS

Session II: Prospective Free Trade Area in the Asia-Pacific Region - Trade in GoodsThe session will mainly discuss the strengths and weakness of the arrangements of trade in goods in the current mega-FTAs (TPP, RCEP, AEC, PA etc), their innovative arrangements, and the potential social-economic impacts, and identify the components in these FTAs that can be used to promote regional economic integration and build FTAAP.

Session III: Prospective Free Trade Area in the Asia-Pacific Region - Investment and ServiceThe session will mainly discuss the strengths and weakness of the arrangements of investment and service in the current mega-FTAs (TPP, RCEP, AEC, PA etc), their innovative arragements and potential social-economic impacts, and identify the components in these FTAs that can be used to promote regional economic integration and build FTAAP.

Session IV: Prospective Free Trade Area in the Asia-Pacific Region - 21st Century New IssuesThe session will focus on the 21st Century New Issues in the current mega-FTAs (TPP, RCEP, AEC, PA etc), their merits and implications, innovative or ambitious approaches, and the potential social-economics impacts and repercussions, and try to identify areas conducive to regional economic integration and the formation of FTAAP.

Moderator

Dato' Steven Wong, Deputy Chief Executive of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia

Zhang Jianping, Director, Department for International Economic Cooperation, Institute for International Economic Research of NDRC

Free Discussion

1830-2030

Dinner

Special Address

Moderator

Charles Morrison, President, East-West Center

Invited Speaker

Tan Jian, China APEC Senior Official

Day 2, Friday 16 October 2015

0900-1030

Session V: The Role and Positioning of FTAAPBased on the thorough discussion of various mega-FTAs, this section will mainly discuss the importance of promoting Asia-Pacific economic integration after 2020 when the Bogor Goals are supposed to be accomplished and explore from the global and long-term development perspectives the rationale for Pan-Asia-Pacific free trade arrangement, and identify the right approach that the various parties are supposed to take toward the building of FTAAP.

Dong Yan, Director of International Trade Research Division, Institute for World Economic and Politics, CASSpdf
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Free Discussion

1030-1045

Coffee Break

1045-1215

Session VI: An Outlook of the Substantial Contents of FTAAPOn the basis of previous discussions, this session will compare the various RTAs/FTAs and explore the substantial contents that should be included in the future FTAAP. These contents should reflect the next generation issues and the different pursuits of economies at different development levels.

Session VII: Possible Difficulties and Challenges in Realizing FTAAPThis session will predict difficulties and challenges that are likely to appear in the realization of FTAAP and discuss how to overcome them so as to realize common development. The discussion will include: possibilities of aligning TPP and RCEP and other FTAs/RTAs, and how to strike a balance between the concerns of the developed and the developing economies.

Andrew Elek, Research Associate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National Universitypdf
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Free Discussion

1500-1515

Coffee Break

1515-1645

Session VIII: Recommendations to the Collective Strategic Study of FTAAPBased on the previous discussions, this session will try to reach 10 to 15 recommendations to the APEC in the preparation of the Collective Strategic Study.